After Wednesday’s Democratic debate featured sharp clashes between presidential hopefuls, Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez said he isn’t worried about the party’s candidates attacking one another.

“We had differences on policy,” he told MarketWatch on Thursday. “Nobody was talking about hand size. Nobody was putting silly nicknames on people. It was all about policy issues. We agree on most everything, and those things that we have differences on, we talked about it passionately, respectfully, and then it’ll be up for the voters to decide.”

While Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday declined to promise that he will concede ahead of the Democrats’ convention if it becomes apparent that he won’t be the party’s nominee, Perez isn’t sounding concerned about a potentially messy end to the primary.

“I feel certain that all but one are not going to make it to the mountaintop, and everybody’s going to come together,” Perez said. “We’re going to come together with force and unity. I am very, very confident about that, because we know that it’s Donald Trump who is our target.”

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